Great cities have inspired great songs and performances. Think of crooning Tony Bennett or Jeanette MacDonald standing under the earthquake ruins (in film) singing, “San Francisco, open your Golden Gate!”…
Brazil’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film, The Way He Looks, opens November 7. It is out writer/director Daniel Ribeiro’s feature length version of his excellent 2010 short I…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity On October 31, 1989, two weeks after San Francisco was devastated by the Loma Prieta earthquake, we Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence stood on stepstools and…
Lilting, written and directed by the openly gay Hong Khaou, is a subtle and moving chamber drama about the communication gap between Richard (Ben Whishaw) and Junn (Pei Pei Cheng).…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Funded by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, the CASTRO STREET HISTORY WALK is 20 plaques engraved in the Castro Street sidewalks documenting the history…
Sister Dana sez, “National Coming Out Day is October 11th. I don’t know how to come out any further, but I’ll sure give it my best attempt!” By Sister Dan Van…
A feel-good film, Pride chronicles the efforts of an LBGT group in 1984 to raise money to support striking Welsh miners. This rousing period drama, based on a true story,…
Tret Fure could easily rest on her laurels. Her music career spans four decades and includes work recording and producing some of the best of Women’s Music, such as “Meg…
Sister Dana sez, “The populist movement for progressivism is beginning to build. Whether it will find expression in the November elections remains to be seen, but it is already moving…
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